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Re: [DOC PATCH bleadperl] Document generation of random integers

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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
April 30, 2001 04:57
Subject:
Re: [DOC PATCH bleadperl] Document generation of random integers
Message ID:
20010430065654.D13102@chaos.wustl.edu
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:53:48PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> A beginner was asking how to do this on clpm yesterday.  Adding this
> patch:
> 
> * Documents how to do it.
> 
> * Saves the beginner the trouble of hunting through perlfunc to figure
>   out how to truncate floating point numbers.
> 
> * Shows the range which is returned (which might not be intuitive).
> 
> Walt
> 
> 
> --- pod/perlfunc.pod.orig	Thu Apr  5 18:54:57 2001
> +++ pod/perlfunc.pod	Sun Apr 29 21:19:58 2001

Thanks, applied.  (To the development branch of Perl, from where
it will in time percolate to the maintenance branch.)

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